Gospel of January 29, 2019

Letter to the Hebrews 10,1-10.
Brothers, since the law has only a shadow of future goods and not the very reality of things, it does not have the power to lead those who approach God to perfection through those sacrifices that are continually offered year by year. .
Otherwise, would it not have ceased to offer them, since the faithful, purified once and for all, would no longer have any awareness of sins?
Instead by means of those sacrifices the memory of sins is renewed from year to year,
for it is impossible to eliminate sins with the blood of bulls and goats.
For this reason, entering the world, Christ says: You did not want sacrifice or offer, a body instead you prepared me.
You did not like burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.
Then I said: Behold, I come - for it is written in the scroll of the book - to do, O God, your will.
After saying earlier you did not want and did not like sacrifices or offerings, burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin, all things that are offered according to the law,
adds: Behold, I come to do your will. With this he abolishes the first sacrifice to establish a new one.
And it is precisely because of that will that we have been sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, made once and for all.

Salmi 40(39),2.4ab.7-8a.10.11.
I hoped: I hoped in the Lord
and he bent over me,
he listened to my cry.
He put a new song on my mouth,
praise to our God.

Sacrifice and offering you do not like,
the open ear.
You have not asked burnt offering and sacrifice for sin.
Then I said, "Here, I am coming."

I have announced your justice
in the big assembly;
See, I don't keep my lips closed,
Lord, thou knowest.

I have not hidden your justice deep in my heart,
your faithfulness and your salvation I have proclaimed.
I have not hidden your grace
and your loyalty to the great assembly.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark 3,31-35.
At that time, the mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived and, standing outside, they sent for him.
All around the crowd sat and they said to him: "Here is your mother, your brothers and sisters are out and looking for you."
But he said to them, "Who is my mother and who are my brothers?"
Turning his gaze to those who were sitting around him, he said: "Here is my mother and my brothers!
Whoever does the will of God, this is my brother, sister and mother ».